Ride Captain Ride - Blues Image - 1970
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- Blues Image was formed in Tampa, Florida in 1966 by singer-guitarist Mike Pinera, singer-drummer Manuel "Manny" Bertematti, singer-percussionist Joe Lala, keyboardist Emilio Garcia, and bassist Malcolm Jones. They were later joined by keyboardist Frank "Skip" Konte when Emilio Garcia left the band to become a pilot. Blues Image moved to Miami in 1968, where they were instrumental in helping promoters form the most innovative music venue in South Florida, 'Thee Image'. Blues Image became the house band at the club, which featured bands like the Grateful Dead, Cream, and Blood, Sweat and Tears.
The band moved to Los Angeles and signed with Atco Records, releasing their self-titled debut album in February 1969. Their second album, Open (April 1970), included the popular hit "Ride Captain Ride". Featuring Kent Henry on guitar solo and fills, and Pinera playing solo at the end, the song was co-composed by Pinera and Konte. This disc sold over one million copies, and earned a gold record from the R.I.A.A. in August 1970. It was Blues Image's only charting hit, making the group a one-hit wonder.
Pinera left the band and was replaced by singer Denny Correll and guitarist Kent Henry. The band later broke up but did release a third album,
Friend of mine lived in S. Cal we played this every time we got together. In 1993 while partying loudly at the house, there was a knock at the front door. Neighbor guy always complaining about the loud music. This time he introduced himself as Mike Pinera and said hey I wrote that song! We had drinks and turned it up.
How freaking awesome is that!!!
Wow. What a story! Ride Captain Ride is my favorite one-hit-wonder song. (I was 12 when this song came out; I loved it from the start.)
If true, epic ish
That’s the coolest thing I’ve ever heard
You were lucky to meet him. The sixties were the best and he was one of the reasons for that.
Now I am 70 years old but this song still comes back in my head. So glad they wrote it and the warm memories that it brings back.
hey me too 🙂
i am 68 i still like this song. thumbs up for Mike Pinera
65 now in 2023. I think the restaurant my family and I used to eat at closed down just so I wouldn't play it on the juke box anymore. Great music, great times (when we were on our own).
Right behind you at 67. Love this song. I had my daughter put it on an MP3 player with a bunch of oldies for me about 15 years ago. Used to listen while I was keying mail at the Post Office.
I'm right with you guys i'm sixty three
When we look around , many of us in our 60s wish we could sail away to another shore.
Yep❤
im not 60 yet but ill ride off for sure
Soon, soon we will be sailing to that shore.
I'm 59. This world no longer makes any sense to me.
64 here! Wish to go back to the "good old days" and be able to APPRECIATE how good it was to be young!!!
1970 was a great year for music.
This song is one example why.
I think 1970 was the best year for 45's. The consensus seems to be 1971 for albums. Thanks.
1970 was a great year for movies 🎥 and sports as well.
1970 was a good year for me personally 😁
1970 was for sure great. But 1965 was the best with the emergence of Motown, the Kinks, the Animals , DC5, to name a few.
1965 - 1975 the best decade of all time imho
How has this song not made it into a Guardians of the Galaxy movie? It fits perfectly!
Maybe in the third movie?
Gotta get this song to the producers.
For sure!
Their not worthy?
Oh Lord, I do miss these times. 10 years old, riding my bike with my buddies down to the river on a warm summer day for a glorious day of fishing and listening to this song on my A.M. radio. When the fish didn't bite, it turned into a swim fest. For those of us that grew up in this magical time,.... I'm SURE you can relate. Simple, endless summer days that mean so much more to us now that we are older.
I still can't move very far from the little shire, early orchards & fresh down a quarter miles is just picked fruits/vegetables... The little shire of Campbell!
Beautiful memories.
Cutting through orchards and creeks walking to school.
Thanks for my hometown... Excellent choice! RIP I'll always love and admire you both!
We were too busy watchin' those raindrops fall‼️
Good Days and most Excellent Music‼️
I was 13 great songs
Sixty-two now and loving it. ❤
the sun was never brighter. the grass was never greener. the sky was never bluer🎉😢
This song will Always will be great, has lost nothing and it's February 2024
You can say that again brother.
Right on brother. 😂
Mark of a classic.
👍👍💯💯
Definitely 💯 Correct My Friend GOD BLESS 🙏🙏❤❤
2021 and still loving this song, so glad I grew up in the 70s and 80s to enjoy such great music ❤️
Amazing
Me too! Adding this song to our group for the morning ear worm 😉😁
Can´t beleive there from my hometown...Tampa
Amen!!!!
@@frankmj9631 cool 😎
I'm 67 yrs young and grew up listening to this, one of my favorite tunes, while out plowing and discing fields for what seemed like an eternity. It provided a much needed, mental escape from the boredom. Started working the fields at age 12.
Had to beat HECK out of "International Harvester."
@@drpoundsignmaybe he’s more of a John Deere green kind of guy 🤷♂️
I am the same age and same background. Spent a lot of time from 1970-'73 listening to Top 40 tunes on a fender mounted radio which was on a JD 4020. If the radio broke, I didn't work until it was fixed.
Me too, 1964-‘69. In ‘70 “My” USMC took charge.
Wait, you guys had radios on your tractors???! I just had to sing it myself from memory.
My mom and I would always play this on the jukebox … this song came on her Hospice music tv station and she listened to me sing it and smiled and passed on shortly after - this song will have so many memories in my heart ❤️
Precious memories. So sorry for your loss. ❤
What a beautiful story to remember, share and smile to! You helped ease your Mother into Eternity. God bless you!!!
@@cruisingmimi9319 Thank you 😊- music helps us in so many ways
Awww...that was your collective "Drops of Jupiter." When MY Mother was spending her Last night in inpatient hospice, (on a New Year's Eve) Dad tried to soothe her by us watching NYE specials. On ONE show-they had a Singing Sheltie that howled. (WE had a Sheltie years before...we Loved her, but she wasn't that Talented.) Mom saw it and exclaimed: "AWWwww...that's a CUTE Sheltie!" It was one of the Last things she Ever Said...Before passing a little after 3 AM.
I checked youtube a few years back, and SURE Enough-there was a video of that Dog. Me and the poster exchanged memories of my Dearly Departed Mom and her Sheltie.
@@drpoundsign that’s a nice story … I have never heard of Drops of Jupiter before - it makes sense to me now - thank you for sharing
It’s amazing how many one hit wonders are among the greatest songs ever written. This and Brandy right on top of the list.
Band of Gold by Freda Payne from the same period. In the Summertime by Mungo Jerry. The list goes on and on ...
Even more amazing was Denny's career long after this..
Never been any reason is another one
@@CharlieMoney77 no, but the local AM stn's hits records. KRLA and KHJ Los Angeles...for memory buffs😎
@@liber8or Green-Eyed Lady, and Don't Call Us (we'll call you). Sugarloaf: 2-hit wonders!
I'm 65 and this song is just as "fresh" as ever!!
End of December 2023 and still loving this song, good memories from a better time
Amazing song! :)
Yup! The flip side of the 45 rpm record was "Pay My Dues"
Great time to be alive when music was King.
Love this song I was a little girl when this came out,but I remember hearing it riding in our station wagon with my parents,great childhood memories!!!💙
One of the most underrated rock songs of all time! Ten out of ten!!
That beautiful soul in the middle of the song so incredible and clean
For sure.
I wouldn't change anything about growing up in this time and all the awesome music we experienced!
49 years later and I still love this song!
Met too !
My son has done 5 Sydney to hobarts
And his crewmate just done his sixth !
Half Century!!!! We can laugh our lives away stilllllll.... Right!
50.....
51 years and still sounds like a good idea!
Who doesn’t love this song.
53yrs back today, and still packs a mean swing. This orig. & the Blood, Sweat & Tears version with David Clayton Thomas on vocals are both great listening numbers.
I was a 9 year old kid listening to this on the radio. I wish I could go back to those days.
I wasn't too far behind you, I was 12! Sporting the suede jackets frills and round rim glasses! (LOL)
Every time this song came on the radio in the car my mom would crank it up and we’d all start singing.
Cool memory
A perfect song as there will ever be. Awesome harmony and musicianship (especially the drumming!). An awesome entry to help usher in the 1970’s.
Good Memories ... Those were the days when the music actually told a story ... This ones classic!!!
My very first record purchase, it was a 45 . I was probably about 8 or 9.
Played it endlessly. 😊 my sister was with me, she’s gone now but I remember this experience with her like it was yesterday.
My taste in music is jaded because I grew up with music like this in the background...I can appreciate some modern stuff but none of it tops songs like this or goey beyond them in creativity, innovation and conveying depth of feeling.
Part of the soundtrack of my youth. What a killer tune!
For sure! I miss the 70's!
Yes these were the best days thank God for memories!!
Oh wow who out there remembers this good classic rock song. I do I do I do I do. 💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃
I do too.
This is only one of a veritable plethora...
Like science, music is currently having a near death experience...
Today's music has doesn't have a chance this is real from the heart and soul
Music has been garbage for at least 20 years
I remember Maggie May, Get Ready by Rare Earth and this song all came out at the same time and I couldn’t get enough of them. Funny the things that stick in one’s memory.
Amazing how my 62 year old self can hear a blast from the past like this and have the physical feeling of being transported back to those days and locations and be experiencing as if I just went back in a Time Machine. 😊
I'm with you all the way.
Music is a Time Machine.
Amen❤
My high school year 1970 in Tracy, California. "73 men sailed her from the San Francisco Bay. Rolled off of that ship and here's what they had to say. Were calling everyone to ride along to another shore. We can laugh our lives away and be free once more." Loved hearing this fantastic song for years after when I was going to college. It explained to me what was happening in front of me. An exciting time leaving high school, my home town, exploring the world around me, girls, jobs, the future. All about freedom and a new vision. Amazing times in the 60's and 70's. Why can't today's young people perform songs like these.
I was in the ARMY 68-70 and in Viet Nam 69-70 ❤
This another of the great music that came from the 60's and 70's. Glad I was there to enjoy it firsthand.
This song takes me back to my childhood in Chicago. Fishing with my brothers and my father. Rest In Peace dad. You always made sure there was a roof over our heads and food on the table.
Super CFL!
❤
KOMA was one of my favorite radio stations back in the '70s and 80s ❤
Well, look at this. Loved this song since I was a kid. Have never seen the band performing it before now. Thanks, Gene.
Timeless classic, that never gets old.
Still jamming in 2024...timeless
Wow! Before music videos!! Incredible!!
I love this song.
In the early 90's I was stationed in Alameda on the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) and we literally "sailed up from the San Francisco Bay."
There were around 80 guys in my division (close to the 73 mentioned in this song) and, man, did we ever have some great times.
Love it…..just heard it today on the radio!
Sometimes, I catch a line and it makes me happy just for being written...."Be amazed at the friends you have here on your trip"
Good call Danny
I loved this song when I was a kid..still do 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
I vaguely remember hearing this song when I was a boy. And I was a baby when it came out. Now that I've found it, and thus learned the title of this song and the name of the group that performed it, I can enjoy it again and again. The 1970s had great music. And it is March of 2024 that I am hearing this and typing this comment.
happy bday Mike Pinera ;-)
My twin brothers as old as this song showed me the pathway to greatness classic rock 🎸
This was a big tune in the day, the kind that replayed itself all day in your head.
They should have had this in forest gump
Best Summer of my life. Heard this song 1000 times and more.
Me too !
And this Summer 2020? Of course it doesn't compare for you I'm sure!!
@@Icarmzzy As a senior and a Covid-19 shut in over the past six months . This has been the strangest summer of my entire life. I have taken advantage of the time to weight train daily and review and expand my knowledge of music theory . I can.t turn back the clock become 18 again.
I appreciate them using what looks to be regular people surfing average waves rather than pros on giant waves.
One of the coolest songs of all time.
its such an iconic sound of pirates playing in the sunshine.
What a tasty lead guitar break….smooth 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Happy Birthday Mike Pinera born on September 29, 1948. He is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter and producer who started professionally in the late 1960's with the group Blues Image, which had a number 4 hit in 1970 with their song "Ride Captain Ride". After the break-up of that group, he joined Iron Butterfly, and later formed the group Ramatam. - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Pinera
Endless summers growing up in San Francisco… great childhood.
Still digging this over 50-years later!
Man, the '70s were incredible!
Song was a true story,one of the best!
I was born in 59. One of the greatest satisfactions of my life was hearing the world's greatest soundtrack in my childhood.
I’m 70 now, and this is now an “oldie”! DAMN!
Iconic AM hit song from that era... the best songs were still Top 20 AM... this is a biggie from that summer...
Top 40 music on AM radio! With apologies to Archie and Edith Bunker, THOSE were the days!
After Ieaving the service I saw Pineras Iatest iteration of a band that covered this tune, Ram-A-Tam, if memory is correct. April Iawton was the female guitarist and singer with the band. About 73 maybe. They were an opening act.CIassic tune.
I was in high school at the time and wrote a term paper on U.S.S. Pueblo. I was marked down because my paper did not have a conclusion: the ship after all these years is still a commissioned Navy vessel but in captivity! Loved the song.
Classic…. I liked it since first hearing it
Born 1956, the songs seemed to be predicting something we are needing now. I really feel for the children of today.
Imagine running into some random dudes jamming their instruments on a rocky beach cliff ? Fuk yeah !! 😂🤣🤘✌️
Timeless Classic This be! 2018 this still sounds so Cool.
💕💕💕
73 guys on 1 surfboard- WOW!
Introduced by comedian John Byner.
There's a feeling I get when I look to the West
And my spirit is crying for leaving
In my thoughts I have seen rings of smoke through the trees
And the voices of those who stand looking"" stairway to heaven
I can’t believe this song is over 50 years old. I was a kid when it came out. It’s a shame they left off the sick guitar solo at the end.
I’ve always felt the same about the song, and how they cut that last solo out! In fact I was actually angry the record company did.
I wished the master could be found and rereleased in the long version if there is one.
We had some of the best music in the 60s and 70s
2020 & still Listening !!
Damn straight. Same with early 60's songs, such as "rhythm of the rain" and Buddy Holly.
I didn't learn of it till early '76 (wasn't quite 13) and have loved it ever since. Blood, Sweat, and Tears covered this, but give me Blues Image's version any day. This song's 50 years old (posting in 2020) and I don't think I'll ever tire of hearing it. Kids today honestly don't know what they missed. I didn't hear it when it came out, but I've no doubt I'd have taken an instant and permanent liking to it.
Outstanding!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Vietnam Vet 69-70
Great song. Was this song inspired by the Pueblo incident in which North Korea seized an American ship in supposedly North Korean waters. That incident happened I believe in the late 60's. The ship had 73 men on board. Am I correct.
I was 11 and me and my friends were allowed to walk to local diner for lunch. Such big guys! I remember playing this song on the jukebox
What memories 😊😊😊
Great find!
Even though they are on the beach, it sounds like the studio version! Imagine that!
We can laugh our lives away and be free once more.......
We can laugh and live our lives away. Beautiful!
This came out and so of course I named my boat "Mystery Ship". Mainly because the boat, by itself, floated against the current of a river under a bridge. To me at 14 it defied nature and physics. (Probably was a wind induced pressure situation)
Saw them perform this song at a back to the 60's concert in Glen Helen,Ca
While stationed aboard the U.S.S. Durham L.K.A.114 , for some reason we had the Army band on board , they put on a concert for us on the mess deck , this is one of the songs they played
Senior in high school when ever this came on the radio blast it
Was in the grocery store today, and this song came on. You know you're getting old when you not only recognize the songs on the musack, you like them.
I loved this life it was and is amazing.
I remember Blues Image opening for The Doors at Pittsburgh's Civic Arena in May 1970.
It was 6 years before I was born. Wish I could have seen it
How many died. How many made it to shore. Love this song. Ride captain, ride
I love the John Byner intro
Thanks, Eddie. I came to the comments to get his name. I'm 55 and recognized him immediately but it's been so long since I've seen him regularly I couldn't quite recall it.
You know why the late 60's, 70's, and 80's music was so f***ing awesome? Because music was connected to our social change and cultural evolution of the time. Want more awesome music? Make another era of change and progression!
Whatta shame this group couldn't crank some more hits, they definitely had the talent to do so!
Wow! great band and song!
I'm 62, this was the best song ever to roller skate to
This feels like a great companion song to Grand Funk Railroad's "Closer to Home".
memoires I was just like 7 or 8 but I can still remember this song growing up in the 70s was like you never want to grow up but then you wish you were older. BACK IN THE 70S EVERYTHING WAS SO GREAT! THE PEOPLE,THE MUSIC,"NOT LIKE NOW". EVERYTHING IS TERRIBLE,. ALL WE CAN DO IS HOLD ON THOSE DAMN GOOD MEMOIRES THAT THIS GOOD MUSIC BRINGS US
Living in the past is a death sentence.
I was 14 in 1970.
@@batswbennett Good point. Yet, we can still move on, and continue to enjoy this music.. Example: I'm leaving Canada soon, to emigrate to another Country. I will take this music with me. For me, that is not living in the past. But more like enjoying my memories..
@@undergroundwarrior70 I was 15
I was still swimming around in the 70s but love this music
My kids will never know how great this music is
Performed with these guys at a celeb Beverly Hills show in 1968 along with BLack Oak Arkansas ... Mike PINERA besides his talent, Is a great soul that's what impressed me the most ! ... it was a crowded dressing room lol and GREAT SHOW by the way !
I salute you sir!
Pinera joined Iron Butterfly after the Blues Image broke up.
73 men sailed up! 🥰Just me...again.. CRANK IT UP!!!
Used to hear this on the radio in 1970. Great song but pretty much a one hit wonder The Blues Image. Written and sung by Mike Pinera the band was from Tampa, Florida. The band definately had a latin influence like Santana.
I believe Mike Panera may be Latino. His birth name is Carlos Michael Pinera.
Best story I have ever heard now that’s cool
john byner!
As a Tampa native drummer also great friend of Joe lala en route to a show in Atlanta stop to visit Billy sa sandlin's mother she cooked us butter beans and Joe lala who had never had this type of food those were great what are they called we told him butter beans he pronounced BATTABEANS Joe and I shared many good stories of ybor City and deviled crabs my name is Michael Comparetto we all miss you lala a true legend
I'm 65 years old...I still have this 45 that I bought when this came out...I still love it...truly great tune!
Reminds.me of.my.first time coming into.S.F. to unload my ship.at OAT. (Oakland Army Terminal) They fired cannon when we passed thru the Golden Gate!😅 LONG time ago.